The Leech House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. Leech house.
The Leech House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-pediment-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Leech house
- Address
- The Leech House, A684, Aiskew and Leeming Bar
- OS grid reference
- SE 268 882
- Coordinates
- 54.28919, -1.58961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Leech House is a late 18th-century building located in Aiskew. It is constructed of red brick and features a lead roof. The structure is almost square in plan, consisting of one storey and one bay. The entrance is a boarded door set within a triangular-headed surround that has an ashlar keystone. The other sides of the building have small window openings with stone sills and triangular heads, also featuring ashlar keystones. The building is topped with an embattled parapet. Inside, there is a small contemporary corner cast-iron fire grate. This building is a rare example of a structure designed for a doctor to house leeches for use in his medical practice.
Local climate
The Leech House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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